Implementation of the stroop task using an interactive table: an experimental study

Holly Miller (1) , Sébastien Kubicki (2) , Christophe Kolski (3) , Janick Naveteur (3)

1 Department of Computer Science - K.U.Leuven
2 Lab-STICC_ENIB_CID_IHSEV
3 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201

We have implemented a psychological test, known as the Stroop task (in its reversed version), using the interactive TangiSense table that is equipped with RFID technology allowing the use of tangible objects. How the test was implemented, as well as the experimental study, are described in this paper. As a general description, participants moved a tangible object into one of four colored zones. The correct colored zone was indicated by a word for a color displayed in congruent or incongruent colored LED lights (e.g., "yellow" displayed in yellow or red, respectively). Participants took more time to place the object in a zone and made more errors when the word was lit with an incongruent than congruent color. These results suggest that the TangiSense table has applicable value for psychological research.

Keywords: Stroop; Interactive table; RFID; Tangible interactions; TangiSense

Domains: Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]; Ubiquitous Computing; Computer science

Holly Miller, Sébastien Kubicki, Christophe Kolski, Janick Naveteur. Implementation of the stroop task using an interactive table: an experimental study. CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2013, Paris, France. pp.253-258, ⟨10.1145/2468356.2468402⟩. ⟨hal-00864291⟩